Friday, July 09, 2010

shattered

My arms and shoulders are pretty achy today. Bench pressing a transmission and then trying to deal with 5 bolts that were torqued down to over 90 ft-lbs (remove, install hitch, re-torque). That hitch is a heavy sumbitch. Class III ones generally are. That and trying to apply 92 ft-lbs of torque on a bolt laying on your back just kind of sucks.

So why was I putting a hitch on something? Certainly wasn't the Passat. But the transmission was the Passat's.

We've got a road trip coming up. Fingers crossed that it is not too insane. Hopefully i'll get a chance to write over the next week...

Oh and that Thule T2 hitch rack is F'n HEAVY and awkward to assemble...
written (if you can call it that) by before

2 comments:

G-ride said...

See, this is where i love being small. On the scout and ford trannies, i laid on my back and used my knees to move the trans around. Works pretty well. You would need bigger jack stands than i have to make that work, though...

Whining about how heavy a class 3 hitch is, though? Come on dude. you are embarrassing yourself.

3:07 PM
gewilli said...

well maybe I shouldn't have been bench pressing the tranny first.

and sure - it ain't that heavy but you try holding it in place for a while, over your head, with one hand, wrenching with the other.

This is when I wish i had a nice air set up... or that i had stopped by to borrow skinny's electric impact wrench.

Sure it is only 50-60 pounds (i think it is more than that). But you lay on the ground and hold that thing up there.

lets see how long you can keep it lined up with the f'n holes while you're trying to bolt it in place.

Oh and your coffee maker isn't much smaller than the transmission in the passat, but i bet it is a lot lighter.

3:21 PM

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